Art beat ... finger on the pulse

Beijing

Buzzwords in 3-D

At his solo exhibition Images of Magnetic Resonance, contemporary artist Zheng Guogu explores how human consciousness interacts with time and space. His installation Spiritual Tour of a Pure Garden includes several stone sculptures which he fashioned into "buzzwords". Viewers can sit on them, as if they are visiting a garden of text. Also on display are four paintings which four painters produced following his instructions at the opening of the show. Zheng drank tea in a room and gathered messages he "felt' from the exhibition halls outside. He told how he transformed the information into images to the painters who drew them on canvas.